My advice would be (per the other person here) to ignore home-manager when you're getting started, and then, when you're ready, treat it as a dotfiles manager o

My advice would be (per the other person here) to ignore home-manager when you're getting started, and then, when you're ready, treat it as a dotfiles manager on steroids. I've never used it to manage visible directories in my ~/, but for ~/.gitconfig? Absolutely :).